It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having - a little fantasy about the people we might turn… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
All I know is that you can get very little from a book that is making you weep with the effort of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
(About Love)The most important thing in life, and you can't tell whether people have it or not. Surely this is wrong? Surely… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did. — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image